Hair switch and method of making the same.



A. BIANCHI. HAIR SWITCH AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME.

Patented June 13, 1916.

rt-u: COLUMBIA PLANOURAPH cm, WASHINGTON n c ARTHUR BIANCHI, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRIGT OF COLUMBIA.

HAIR SWITCH AND METHOD OF MAKING THE SAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 13, 1916.

Application filed March 7, 1916. Serial No. 82,608.

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hair Switches, and Methods of Making the Same, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to head dress articles for ladies wear, and pertains especially to a hair switch and method of making the same.

The object of the invention is to provide a method of making hair switches which shall afford means for ventilation and flexibility of the switch-head.

A further object of the invention is to provide a method of fastening the individual hairs of a switch so that two oppositely extending hair-switch members are joined together at their-fastened ends by means of a flexible ventilating element through which the hairs of each member are separately laced for fastening them.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a method of concealing the connected ends of hair-switch memberswhich element of concealment shall constitute a dividing line between and form a part of each member of a switch.

A still further object of the invention is to provide a flexible connection for oppositely extending hair-switch members. and affording means for lacing and knotting the hair of both members, and to furnish a novel and peculiar arrangement of oppositely connected hair strands forming a cover for the knotted ends of the hairs of said members and also forming a line part between the members.

Various other objects, advantages, and improved results are attainable in the practical application of the invention, as will be hereinafter described.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this application :Figure l is a perspective view showing the method of lacing and knotting switch-hairs in and to a flexible perforated hollowholder. Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the holder fully laced with hair-switch members and ready to have the concealing member applied thereto. Fig. 3 is an elevation showing a completed switch. Fig. 4 is an enlarged elevation partly broken away showing the manner of lacing and knotting the switch hairs to the netting.

Fig. 5 is an enlarged elevation showing the manner of connecting the outer hair strata. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a modification partly broken away.

The same reference characters denote the same parts throughout the several views of r the drawings.

In carrying out my invention I employ a holder or switch-head preferably composed of woven textile netting 1, in a single thickness of tubular shape, and of such character as to be pliable or flexible, and of such texture as to afford ventilation through the netting and through the tube so as to ventilate the switch members 2 and 3 held by the netting which constitutes a hollow perforated head of a double switch. The netting is formed into tube-shape by stitching the ends together as at 4:, then the hairs of the switch members 2 and 3' are laced in independent clusters through the netting from the inner side of thetube and knotted thereto so as to project in opposite directions from the outer face of the tube. The lacing and knotting also being made over and through the joining edges of the tube. The

hair cluster of the members are laced and knotted so as to permit the switch members to fall or project in opposite directions from the tube and therefore a dividing knotted space 5 is formed between the members. Said space and the exposed knots, and possibly slightly exposed parts of the netting are covered or concealed by a specially devised constructiomnow to be particularly described. A pair of spaced threads 6 are used for the hair strata 7 and 8 which are looped around and between the threads so that the strata extend in opposite directions from the threads, and the thread space is closed by sliding the hair looped thereon close together, thus concealing the threads and forming a part or division line 9 between the hair strata 7 and 8.

The strata 7 and 8 each comprise only an amount of hair SUil'lClBIlt to cover the threads and present a smooth flat hair surface having. a natural-like dividing line from which the strata extend. This cover or concealer is placed around the switch head so that the line 9 will fit over the space 5 between the exposed knotted ends of the members 2 and 3, where the cover is secured to the said then free to be worked or dressed in With the members 2 and 3, as desired or as occasion may demand. The switch is attached to the head of the proposed wearer by hair pins in the usual manner, and the various strata of the switch are capable of being worked or dressed into the natural hair to great advantage.

Referring to Fig. 6 of the drawings the switch hair 10 and 10 are laced through and knotted to the net tube-head 1.1, so as to extend respectively from both the outer and the inner face of the tube-head, and in opposite directions over the ends of the tubehead. A plurality of hairs may be clustered together and thereby form a pair of strands in lieu of the threads hereinbefore mentioned.

According to my invention it will be seen that I have devised in one article a two-fold switch, or two' switches in one, which obviously provides double the quantity of artificial hair usually supplied in ordinary single switches. It'will be seen further that my method of anchoring the switch hairs affords means for ventilation, and for flexibility in the manipulation of the switch; and that the switch strata hanging loosely in opposite directions from the flexible resilient tube are thereby separated for ready and convenient application and manipulation in head dressing.

I do not wish to be understood as confining my invention to any particular size or shape, or to any particular material comprising the switch head and the strands of the top piece or cover, but reserve the right to make such changes and variations therein and in assembling the parts as may come within the scope of the appended claims.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. The method of heading hair switches which consists essentially in assembling the switch-hair in independent clusters, looping one end of each cluster, lacing the loops through an open mesh head-member, pass ingcertain of the clusters through their respective loops toward one end of the headmember, and passing the other clusters through their respective loops toward the other end of the head-member, whereby the clusters are tied to the head-member in oppositely projecting groups.

2. The method of heading hair switches which consists essentially in assembling the switclrhair in independent clusters, looping one end of each cluster, lacing the loops through an open mesh head-member, passing certain of the clusters through their respective loops toward one end of the headmember, passing the other clusters through their respective loops toward the other end of the head-member, whereby the clusters are tied to the head-member in oppositely projecting groups, connecting together hair strata extending in opposite directions to form a part-member, and securing the partmember to the head-member centrally between said groups.

3. In a double switch, a head-member, a switch-member comprising individual clusters of hair secured to the head-member and projecting from one end thereof, a like switch-member comprising individual clusters of hair secured to the head member and projecting from the other end thereof, all of said clusters extending lengthwise the head-member, and an outer covering for saidclusters comprising hair strata con nected together so as to form a part-member and attached to the head-member between said switch-members.

4. In a double switch, a tubular headmember, a switch-member comprising individual clusters of hair secured to the headmember and projecting from one end thereof, a like switch-member comprising individual clusters of hair secured to the head member and projecting from the other end thereof, certain clusters of each switch-member extending from within the head member and all of said clusters extending lengthwise the head-member, and an outer covering for said clusters comprising hair strata connected together so as to form a partmeml er and attached to the head-member between said switch-members.

5. In a hair switch, the combination with a switch-head, and two switch-members secured to the head and projecting therefrom in opposite directions, of an outer covering secured to the head centrally between said members and comprising two parallel abuttingstrands, and two sets of hair strata, each strata being looped once over one of the strands and twice over the other strand, the loops of each strata alternating with each other and with the adjacent loops so as to form a part-member having a natural appearance between the said switch-members.

In witness whereof I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR BIANCIII. l/Vitnesses:

J. Ross CoLHoUN, C. T. BELT.

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